Betty- a combo homage to Betty Page and Dita Von Teese

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I saw a statue of a similarly posed Betty Page and loved the silhouette. I also saw a shot of Dita Von Teese that was almost identical. I put in elements of both in a street art, stencil style illustration and positioned it on the shirt to go right down the middle so it will flirt out of a jacket or other shirt worn over it. A loving cloth monument to the two Ultra Mega Stars of Burlesque.

This is also my reaction to BOOBS constantly being a design obstacle. You print flat on shirts. You design flat on a screen. Then some curves come around and throw the images in every direction. I had to dump some designs because the bosom would make the design look weird. So with this design, I had the idea that if the customer came well endowed enough to expand the shirt, the design would expand in a way that reflected the wearers abundance. I felt so clever. It works too. If the figure is fuller, the shirt image is too. Niiiiiiiiice. Very classic. Always crisp and good looking. Not even a logo or brand name on it. Just a sharp icon.

Ironically, Dita came shopping at the booth one year. She bought a bunch of shirts, and wouldn't even let me comp her one. A local TV station was filming her at the moment and it ended up on the news. That turns into a Rosario Dawson story that I will tell in a blog post later. Bottom line is, guys look hot in this shirt, so do the amazonians (especially the tank top) and you can't go wrong with this one.

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Is that Glenn Danzig, punk pock originator and megastar, hanging out at the Popular Naughty booth talking to Venture Bros. provocateurs- Doc Hammer and Jackson Publick? Oh, why yes. Yes it is. You may also notice Danzig is wearing this shirt design. Yes. Yes he is.